Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 6 May 1996 14:40:21 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Gyula Matics <> | Subject | Re: .98 lp.o not working, .97 OK |
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> lp.o just says "kernel: lp1 off-line" repeatedly. It does print something > after a while (a page every few minutes) but it is useless. > > I tested again with .97 and it works OK. > > I load lp.o as a module, if it matters. > > BTW, lp.o is used in it's default (polling) mode. I never got it to work > with interrupts (I tried to set "io=0,0x378,0 irq=0,7,0" and the startup > message said "(irq = 7)" but I never saw one character printed. I did not > yet search enough on this matter neither did I play with tunelp yet.
same here. it is printing a line in every tenth second or so.
now i tried tunelp -i 7 and printing works again
so, there is something with the polling mode.
-- Matics Gyula mgyula@sch.bme.hu Linux!
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